Gender equity

Worldwide, more than 700 million of women alive today were married as children. Child marriages, early pregnancies and sexual violence are major causes for girls dropping out of school. There is still a big gap between boys and girls when it comes to completion rates. Edukans closes the gap and creates equal education opportunities. Our approach is transformative for both girls and boys including their communities. We involve local civil society organisations in the execution of our work and coordinate and cooperate our strategies with governments and the private sector. We empower girls, eliminate discrimination and harmful practices and create safe learning environments. This leads to increased transition of girls to secondary education, higher completion rates and better learning outcomes.

Ambition 2020

We aim for 400 school communities supporting comprehensive sexuality education to eliminate gender disparities and harmful practices.
To empower 100,000 girls and boys we involve: